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...foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit itself ... to any other cause or movement...
...enough since, save for his drinks of an evening, he was a man of modest habits. Last week Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with the Law. It was not for the sort of offense-rape, shooting, embezzlement et al.-which lawbreaking parsons commonly commit. On the word of a U. S. Secret Service agent, Father Balaban was a counterfeiter, head of a ring which operatives had been watching for a year...
...agree not to commit sabotage on the property of the company, its equipment, airplanes and airplane parts and will report to the company any act of sabotage or any known threat of sabotage...
...must be obvious to the new leaders of the Harvard Student Union that to be seduced once again into a national group that robs them, and tries to commit them to political alliances which can only be unpopular on the Harvard Yard, will serve to reduce rather than increase their support and respect from the general student body. For such a promising start to land on the shoals as it is leaving harbor would be a major set-back for the Harvard Student Union's ambitious program for the current academic year...
Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb...